Michael Beasley Quotes

My favorite player growing up was Steve Nash, so that's been a guy I look up to and a guy I've gotten to talk to a few times, too.

Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

I looked up to cricket players such as Imran Khan.

There are a lot of players that I wanted to play with, but I always wanted to play with Ronaldinho. He's been always my idol, I am a fan of his.

All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken.

It's fun to look over there and see a guy with as a great stature as John Elway. It's really cool that he went to one of my games.

You can't have a greater person to emulate your game around than Scottie Pippen.

I love Virat Kohli, he has achieved a lot.

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

I know a lot of young girls look up to me. I have a lot of fans.

I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to.

It is a great feeling when you lay down at night, and you know there are little kids out there imitating you, and people want to know what you eat and when you go to sleep.

People don't realize this, but throughout my career, I grew up patterning my game after Scottie Pippen's. I admire him for his versatility.

Glenn McGrath's my hero, so I did a lot of reading on him when I was growing up.

I think it's a huge compliment from the younger guys understanding what I did for the game and wanting to represent me by wearing my shoes.

Superstar - I mean, when I think of superstar, I think of LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, names like that. I don't know if I can put myself in that category.

Who wouldn't want to be compared to a guy like Steph Curry?

My role changes quite a lot, but ultimately I've always admired Glenn McGrath.

I think anybody would want to be compared to Kevin Durant.

When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.

I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.